Comments on: Midwest 2007 http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007 Photos, music, food, and fun from composer John Mackey Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:46:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Johnson Spectacle http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/comment-page-1#comment-55396 Johnson Spectacle Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:12:15 +0000 http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/#comment-55396 I know it's been several years since this blog post was written, but I just stumbled across it via Google. I wanted to say that I hope, John, you never met up with Will Mego, because honestly, who the hell writes such douchy things in a stranger's blog? All that's missing is a stuffy fake posh Londoner's accent, and the pretentious quota would be fulfilled. I've heard Will's music, and it's awful, so don't take any compositional advice from him, and just to spite him, don't take any food advice from him either. I know it’s been several years since this blog post was written, but I just stumbled across it via Google.

I wanted to say that I hope, John, you never met up with Will Mego, because honestly, who the hell writes such douchy things in a stranger’s blog? All that’s missing is a stuffy fake posh Londoner’s accent, and the pretentious quota would be fulfilled.

I’ve heard Will’s music, and it’s awful, so don’t take any compositional advice from him, and just to spite him, don’t take any food advice from him either.

]]> By: Midwest: another rant at John Mackey’s Blog http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/comment-page-1#comment-8125 Midwest: another rant at John Mackey’s Blog Tue, 06 May 2008 19:19:38 +0000 http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/#comment-8125 [...] Let me preface this by saying that I love attending the Midwest Clinic every December in Chicago. It’s a huge gathering of over 15,000 music educators spending five days attending concerts by some of the best middle school and high school bands in the country — and usually at least one unbelievable performance by a non-American band, often from Japan. Last year featured the band from Michigan State University, conducted by Kevin Sedatole, giving what, by many accounts, was probably the best concert ever heard at Midwest. The year before, Jerry Junkin conducted the Dallas Wind Symphony at Midwest. I’ve had great performances at Midwest, and I’ve consumed incredible quantities of spirits post-concert. I plan to attend every year for the foreseeable future, largely because it’s an opportunity to see friends. (You can read about last year’s Midwest Clinic in this entry.) [...] [...] Let me preface this by saying that I love attending the Midwest Clinic every December in Chicago. It’s a huge gathering of over 15,000 music educators spending five days attending concerts by some of the best middle school and high school bands in the country — and usually at least one unbelievable performance by a non-American band, often from Japan. Last year featured the band from Michigan State University, conducted by Kevin Sedatole, giving what, by many accounts, was probably the best concert ever heard at Midwest. The year before, Jerry Junkin conducted the Dallas Wind Symphony at Midwest. I’ve had great performances at Midwest, and I’ve consumed incredible quantities of spirits post-concert. I plan to attend every year for the foreseeable future, largely because it’s an opportunity to see friends. (You can read about last year’s Midwest Clinic in this entry.) [...]

]]> By: MMc http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/comment-page-1#comment-4907 MMc Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:30:17 +0000 http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/#comment-4907 Yes, Japan is cheery. Hope to get there again someday. Perhaps if the DWS ever tours, or I get another last second chance to sub with the Malaysian Philharmonic. Can find the windup cinnamoroll on the Sanrio site. So looks E-bay for me!! Thanks, MMc Yes, Japan is cheery. Hope to get there again someday. Perhaps if the DWS ever tours, or I get another last second chance to sub with the Malaysian Philharmonic. Can find the windup cinnamoroll on the Sanrio site. So looks E-bay for me!!
Thanks,

MMc

]]> By: John http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/comment-page-1#comment-4869 John Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:32:05 +0000 http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/#comment-4869 That rabbit-looking creature is <a href="http://www.sanrio.co.jp/english/characters/w_chara/cinnamoroll.html" rel="nofollow">Cinnamoroll</a> -- one of the Sanrio/Hello Kitty characters. If you wind him up, his head bobs up and down and he looks like he's eating his cinnamon roll. Isn't Japan cheery?! That rabbit-looking creature is Cinnamoroll — one of the Sanrio/Hello Kitty characters. If you wind him up, his head bobs up and down and he looks like he’s eating his cinnamon roll.
Isn’t Japan cheery?!

]]> By: MMc http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/comment-page-1#comment-4868 MMc Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:18:23 +0000 http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/#comment-4868 What is the little rabbit looking creature holding a cupcake? And where can I get one? MMc What is the little rabbit looking creature holding a cupcake? And where can I get one?

MMc

]]> By: John http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/comment-page-1#comment-4800 John Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:05:01 +0000 http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/#comment-4800 To be fair... Nick's really was very good, those ribs were from a bar, and Giordano's is Giordano's! You don't go to Giordano's because it's <em>pretty</em>. You go because it's delicious and makes you loopy and a bit lethargic and causes you to burp tomato for the rest of the day. It's a chain, but it's good! The sushi place, though, sucked. To be fair… Nick’s really was very good, those ribs were from a bar, and Giordano’s is Giordano’s! You don’t go to Giordano’s because it’s pretty. You go because it’s delicious and makes you loopy and a bit lethargic and causes you to burp tomato for the rest of the day. It’s a chain, but it’s good!

The sushi place, though, sucked.

]]> By: Will Mego http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/comment-page-1#comment-4799 Will Mego Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:57:01 +0000 http://ostimusic.com/blog/midwest-2007/#comment-4799 Ok... How could you come to Chicago, a city which even a well-known NYC based food magazine admits is the current #1 city in the USA for food, both on a specific level, and general level...and manage to find some of the nastiest looking food as you did? That fish place (from the pic, it clearly doesn't deserve the usual Japanese title of such restaurants) must of been the worst. Place. In Chicago. Ever. At least Nick's is alright...or at least was when I went there last...which was seriously about 20 years ago, when I was 11. Seriously, someday, should we meet, we'll have to go to an actual chicago place...there's a sushi place that doesn't have a front door, you stare your fish in the eye, and he's still breathing when you eat him, and try the famous <a href="http://www.geneandgeorgetti.com/frame_home.html" rel="nofollow">Gene and Georgetti's</a> where the fillet is not quite the size of your head...and the marinara is famous, and while the guy at the next table might usually wear a white shirt against a black shirt, and have a colorful nickname like "The Hatchet", he knows that they get cuts of meat the other places...aren't allowed...or Frontera Grill, which serves a steak which will ruin all others for you, or wednesdays special, "Cochinita Pibil--achiote-marinated Maple Creek Farm suckling pig roasted in banana leaves"....not to mention the famous restaurants like Everest, Tru, Alinea, Trotter's, etc etc etc.... But no.... Nicks fishmarket, giordano's, and some nasty looking nameless food. *sigh* P.S. More slow music. Ok…
How could you come to Chicago, a city which even a well-known NYC based food magazine admits is the current #1 city in the USA for food, both on a specific level, and general level…and manage to find some of the nastiest looking food as you did? That fish place (from the pic, it clearly doesn’t deserve the usual Japanese title of such restaurants) must of been the worst. Place. In Chicago. Ever.

At least Nick’s is alright…or at least was when I went there last…which was seriously about 20 years ago, when I was 11.

Seriously, someday, should we meet, we’ll have to go to an actual chicago place…there’s a sushi place that doesn’t have a front door, you stare your fish in the eye, and he’s still breathing when you eat him, and try the famous Gene and Georgetti’s where the fillet is not quite the size of your head…and the marinara is famous, and while the guy at the next table might usually wear a white shirt against a black shirt, and have a colorful nickname like “The Hatchet”, he knows that they get cuts of meat the other places…aren’t allowed…or Frontera Grill, which serves a steak which will ruin all others for you, or wednesdays special, “Cochinita Pibil–achiote-marinated Maple Creek Farm suckling pig roasted in banana leaves”….not to mention the famous restaurants like Everest, Tru, Alinea, Trotter’s, etc etc etc….

But no….
Nicks fishmarket, giordano’s, and some nasty looking nameless food.
*sigh*
P.S. More slow music.

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